A pharmaceutical factory producing Chinese herbal medicine was shut down in northeastern China when a patient died after being injected with one of its products, state press said Sunday.
Two other patients were also taken ill after being injected with the herbal medicine produced by the Wusili River Pharmacy in Heilongjiang province, Xinhua news agency said.
The herbal medicine is normally used to treat fevers and coughs caused by the common cold, it said.
Over 240 workers at the factory in Jiamusi city were put out of work due to the shutdown, it added.
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The former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed in 2007 for taking bribes in exchange for product safety licences.
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